Pearl barley in pots: simple, tasty, useful

Many housewives have recently become more zealous adherents of healthy and healthy food. To do this, they somewhat change the technology of cooking ordinary dishes, and also include in the menu natural products (bran bread, cereals, lots of vegetables and fruits). Try and you will cook something like that. For example, it is very easy to get porridge porridge in pots. In this article you will find several available recipes for this healthy dish.

How is the porridge prepared on water, broth or milk?

Perhaps this is the simplest and most common recipe. In addition to the liquid, you do not need to add anything to the croup (apart from adjusting the taste characteristics with salt, sugar and oil). To get melting in the mouth of the dish, it is necessary that porridge porridge in the pots subsumed for a fairly long time. And to significantly reduce it, pour the pre-dry cereal with water. It takes 5-6 to 9-10 hours to swell, so it's best to do it at night.

Ingredients :

• 0,5 faceted glass of pearl barley;
• 2 liters of boiling water, hot milk or broth;
• 1 tsp. Without a slide of table salt;
• ¼ cup ordinary peeled and chopped walnuts;
• 1-2 incomplete art. L. Melted butter.

Stages of preparation

Rinse the rump and pour with damp cold water to cover it by 2-3 cm. In the morning, rinse it several times and spread it over the pots, filling the pots with half. Top with a liquid and put in the oven to languish for 60 minutes. Before serving, sprinkle with salt, oil and sprinkle with nuts.

Recipe for pearl barley in a pot with mushrooms

The original and rich taste of the dish turns out when combined with other ingredients. For example, pearl barley is very tasty in pots with mushrooms and vegetables.

Ingredients :

• 4 full st. L. Dry pearl barley;
• 150 g of any raw mushrooms (preferably champignons);
• 1 medium sized carrot;
• 1 small onion;
• 2 tbsp. L. Without top of sour cream;
• 2 liters. Any vegetable oil;
• salt.

Stages of preparation

Boil the croup until half cooked. Mushrooms clean, cut into plates and fry with chopped onions and freshly grated carrots on warm vegetable oil. Lay in the pots layers alternately two masses. Do not forget to sprinkle lightly with salt and cover with sour cream. After that, fill the pots with hot water so that all of their contents are covered with liquid. In the process of extinguishing, all excess moisture will go to the barley. Put in the oven for 35-40 minutes. If the softness is insufficient, increase the cooking time a little.

Stuffed pearl barley: recipe with meat

This dish is very nutritious. Meat can be used absolutely any - from a tender chicken to a piquant lamb. It is desirable to take into account the qualitative characteristics of the product when preparing. If the pieces are somewhat harsh, prune them beforehand, before laying them in pots, in a frying pan closed before half-cooked.

Ingredients :

• 500 grams of chopped pieces of any meat;
• 2 incomplete glasses of pearl barley;
• 2 tbsp. L. Without fat for preliminary frying of meat;
• 1 medium sized bulb;
• Spices (pepper, oregano, Provencal herbs) ;
• salt.

Stages of preparation

Meat fry until crisp, then spread over the pots. Sprinkle it on top of the half rings of the onion. Salt, season with spices. Add the croup (pre-soaked overnight). Fill all the products with water so that it covers the last layer by 2 cm. Cook in an oven over medium heat for at least 70-75 minutes. Served on the table in hot form is pearl barley. The recipe with meat can be changed. To get a delicious mouth-watering crust for a few minutes before cooking, lightly sprinkle the dish on top with grated cheese. Perhaps a combination with mushrooms.

Useful assortment with beans

Pearl barley in a pot can also be prepared in a slightly different way. The recipe described below provides for the use of several cereals in the composition of the dish. As for bringing the pearl bar to the ready it takes a much longer time in comparison with other products, you must pre-cook it before half-ready.

Ingredients :

• 1 tablespoon of pearl barley;
• 1 incomplete bean glass;
• 0,5 table glass of rice;
• 0,5 table glass of buckwheat;
• 2 large onions;
• 2 medium carrots;
• 1 tbsp. L. With top of tomato paste;
• 2 tbsp. L. Cream unsalted butter;
• salt;
• Aromatic seasonings to taste.

Stages of preparation

Soak the beans and pearl barley for the night. After swelling (after 10-12 hours), rinse the food several times with water. Then boil them to half-cooked, throw in a colander. Fry the chopped carrots (on a grater) and onions (half rings). After light browning, add tomato paste to the vegetable mass. Rice and buckwheat wash. In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients (cereals, beans and vegetable dressing), salt. Spread on pots and fill with water, bay to a level of 1-1.5 cm above the surface of the products. Bake in the oven until ready (about 40-50 minutes).

How to cook porridge in the form of dessert?

One of the original options is the addition of fruit or dried fruits. It seems unusual, if barley porridge is cooked with sugar in pots, is not it? But it turns out that such a dessert is not only tasty, but also very useful. You can take as a basis the classic recipe for water, milk or broth, presented in this article. But it is best to boil pre-soaked croup to half-cooked.

Ingredients :

• 1 full glass of pearl barley;
• 0,5 table glass of dried fruits (apples, dried apricots, prunes, dried cherries without pits, etc.);
• 1 tbsp. L. Orange candied fruits;
• 2 tbsp. L. With the top of creamy unsalted butter;
• 1 large apple;
• 1 medium-sized orange;
• 3 full st. L. Sugar-sand;
• A pinch of table salt.

Stages of preparation

Boil the croup until a crumbly semi-finished mass is obtained. Dried fruits are covered with boiling water, and then rinse in cold water. Mix pearl gruel with sugar, candied fruits and "drying". Spread on pots, pour water and put in the oven, setting the average temperature. Bake for 35-40 minutes. Shortly before the meal, sugar the cereal, butter and pieces of orange and apple. Gently stir the contents of each pot, bake for another 5-7 minutes.

As you can see, from pearl barley you can cook very useful and tasty dishes!